Retired Austin Police officer Bobby Sides speaks during a sign unveiling honoring fallen Austin Police officer Donald E. Carpenter in Austin. Carpenter was responding to a burglary and was shot and killed in South west Austin on Jan. 28 1964.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, right, embraces Cheryl Carpenter, during a sign unveiling for her father, officer Donald E. Carpenter, in Austin. Officer Carpenter was responding to a burglary and was shot and killed in South west Austin on Jan. 28 1964.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, right, embraces Cheryl Carpenter, during a sign unveiling for her father, officer Donald E. Carpenter, in Austin. Officer Carpenter was responding to a burglary and was shot and

AUSTIN — A road in an Austin park has been named for a police officer killed in the line of duty more than 50 years ago.

The Austin American-Statesman reports that Austin police Officer Donald E. Carpenter was celebrated Saturday during the unveiling of a road named in his honor. About 70 people attended the event.

“Every officer deserves to go home to their family at the end of their shift, and we are so very sorry that Officer Carpenter could not on that fateful day,” Ellen Troxclair, a city council member, said during the event she hosted along with the Austin Police Department and the Austin Parks and Recreation Department.

The new Donald E. Carpenter Way is a road in Circle C Ranch Metropolitan Park.

Carpenter was one of two officers shot on Jan. 28, 1964, while responding to a burglary in progress in South Austin. The suspect inside shouted he was coming out, but instead opened fire on officer Bobby Sides and Carpenter. Sides survived, but Carpenter died two days later at the age of 28. He had served five years as a police officer.

Those attending the event included Sides and Carpenter’s two daughters, Cheryl Carpenter and Donna Aleman.

“Dad’s going to be remembered far after I leave, far after my kids leave,” Aleman said. “It’s just a great honor. It’s humbling to know that people understand his sacrifice, that we’re not the only ones who know what he did.”

Sheriff changes mug shot policy after ex-CEO booked

VICTORIA — A South Texas sheriff has stopped releasing jail booking photos in a change that comes after a newspaper requested the mug shot of a former hospital executive arrested on aggravated assault charges.

A spokesman for Victoria County Sheriff Michael O’Connor told the Victoria Advocate in a story published Sunday the change isn’t related to the arrest of the former head of Citizens Medical Center, whose photo was eventually released.

The sheriff says he’s instead concerned about lawsuits from people later found innocent. The move is being criticized by public information advocates and isn’t how most departments operate.

O’Connor says he will now only release mug shots if a suspect is convicted or put on probation.

The Texas attorney general’s office has given the sheriff discretion to withhold the photos.

Body of swimmer found in Lake Waxahachie WAXAHACHIE — Authorities say the body of a swimmer has been recovered after he went underwater a day earlier in Lake Waxahachie.A spokeswoman for the city of Waxahachie, located about 30 miles south of Dallas, says the swimmer’s body was recovered Sunday morning. She says after the man was seen going underwater Saturday, witnesses called 911 and tried to reach him without success. The victim hasn’t been identified.Meanwhile, officials in Little Elm, located about 40 miles north of Dallas, say 17-year-old Theo Nash died after going underwater as he and some companions were swimming across an area of Lake Lewisville on Friday evening. City officials say his body was found underwater about two hours later. Nash, an incoming senior at Little Elm High School, was on the school’s football team.Waco police arrest couple after infant left in hotel room WACO— Waco police say a man and a woman have been arrested after leaving their 7-week-old daughter alone in a hotel room when they went to a grocery store to get a cigar product used to smoke marijuana.Police believe that during the parents’ absence of about 30 minutes Saturday, smoke from marijuana use set off the room’s smoke alarm. Police say a housekeeper responding to the alarm found the infant and notified police.Police say 29-year-old Nicholas Howlett was arrested for possession of marijuana and abandoning a child, and 19-year-old Leah Omollo was arrested for abandoning a child. Both remained jailed Sunday. Howlett’s bond was $26,000, while Omollo’s was $25,000. Jail records didn’t list an attorney for either.Police say Child Protective Services placed the infant with family members.